embarrassingly bad

Frequency: 6.05.0 per million words

Used to describe something that is very bad, to a degree that causes embarrassment.

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Examples (10)

  • The special effects in that sci-fi movie were embarrassingly bad.
  • His first attempt at stand-up comedy was embarrassingly bad; nobody laughed.
  • I'm never going back to that restaurant; the service was embarrassingly bad.
  • The professor said my initial draft was embarrassingly bad, but he helped me improve it.
  • My French pronunciation is still embarrassingly bad, even after a year of classes.
  • The team's performance in the final match was embarrassingly bad, losing 10-0.
  • If the quality control is this poor, the final product will be embarrassingly bad.
  • To be honest, the plot of the new TV series is embarrassingly bad.
  • The band's cover of the classic song was considered embarrassingly bad by most critics.
  • Their first marketing campaign was so embarrassingly bad that they had to pull it after one day.